pcapfix

Repair damaged or corrupted PCAP and PcapNG files.

Repair a PCAP/PCapNG file (Note: for PCAP files, only the first 262144 bytes of each packet are scanned)

$ pcapfix [path/to/file.pcapng]

Repair an entire PCAP file

$ pcapfix --deep-scan [path/to/file.pcap]

Repair a PCAP/PcapNG file and write the repaired file to the specified location

$ pcapfix --outfile [path/to/repaired.pcap] [path/to/file.pcap]

Treat the specified file as a PcapNG file, ignoring automatic recognition

$ pcapfix --pcapng [path/to/file.pcapng]

Repair a file and show the process in detail

$ pcapfix --verbose [path/to/file.pcap]